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An 11-member search and screen committee, led by Regent Tracey Klein and UW-Whitewater Associate Professor Eric Compas, recommended a list of finalists. The Special Regent Committee determined that the finalists shown below will continue in the selection process.

The four candidates will participate in separate public forums, from May 2-10, offering opportunities for students, faculty, staff, and community members to interact directly with them. There will also be opportunities to provide feedback on the candidates to the search committee.

The Whitewater open forums will be live streamed. Faculty, staff and students who are unable to attend in person will be able to access the livestreams using their NetID and password. Community members can request livestream access here >>

FINALISTS (Listed in the order they will visit campus) All community receptions will be held from 6:00-6:45 p.m. at the Innovation Center at Whitewater University Technology Park.

Dwight C. Watson – Provost & Vice President of Academic & Student Affairs, Southwest Minnesota State University – Community Reception, Thursday, May 2 

Philip K. Way – Provost & Vice President for Academic & Student Affairs, Slippery Rock University – Community Reception, Monday, May 6

Guiyou Huang – Chancellor, Louisiana State University of Alexandria – Community Reception, Tuesday, May 7

Cheryl F. Green- Interim Chancellor, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater – Community Reception, Thursday, May 9

For further information on the candidates and a schedule of the public forums, please click here.

Despite Wisconsin’s cold and windy weather, on April 13 from 11:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m., approximately 150 individuals attended the UW-Whitewater/Community Optimist Club’s Easter Egg Hunt located at Whitewater Middle School. UW-Whitewater Student Optimists and service-learning students also helped facilitate the event.

As the event began, the Easter Bunny and McGruff the Crime Dog were ushered in on a Whitewater fire truck and stayed to have fun and take photographs with the children. As soon as the hunt began, the children sprinted to the Easter eggs as fast as they could. This event was aimed towards 5th graders and under, and all the children in attendance were given a goodie bag once they turned in their Easter eggs. Hidden within the goodie bags were a few golden eggs for each age group. If a child found the golden egg, they were given an Easter Basket.

Lakeview’s fifth graders had a wonderful first-ever camp out at Timber-lee! We would like to say thank you to the entire community for your support during our fundraisers and for all the help you gave in enabling us go on this fun, memorable trip!

Karolyn Alexander’s solo show of more than 100 acrylic abstracts and collage and watercolor paintings, “Art From My Heart,” will be exhibited at the Whitewater Arts Alliance’s (WAA) Cultural Arts Center (CAC), 402 West Main Street from May 2-26, Thursdays through Sundays from noon until 5 p.m.

Karolyn will host an Artist’s Reception on Sunday May 5 from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. at the CAC.  The reception is free and open to the public.  

Karolyn is a lifelong Whitewater resident and with the encouragement of her father, the late Richard Kettwig, has had a passion for art starting in childhood. She has enjoyed mixing colors and making plain surfaces more colorful since her first box of Crayola crayons. As a youngster she experimented with creating new colors by layering one crayon color over another. The passion for color and color mixing remains today as she uses watercolor, acrylic and collage to make watercolor paper and canvas surfaces more colorful.

An early retirement from UW-Whitewater as an IT training coordinator permitted her to focus on art. In April of 2003 she began taking watercolor classes from the late Marilyn Keating at L’Atelier Art Studio in Janesville. Since then she has taken workshops with Kari Anderson, Shelby Keefe, Ratindra Das, Karen Ragus and Laura Lein-Svencner among others. In addition to watercolor, she enjoys doing collage and most recently creating acrylic abstracts. Regardless of the medium she finds delight in experimenting with and using color.

Karolyn said, “I have written a book titled ‘Watercolor Cookbook-Recipes for Mixing Delicious Color’ which includes tips on mixing watercolor paints plus over 60 full color photographs of my watercolor paintings. Many of my paintings can be viewed on my web site www.karolyn.biz. I teach adult watercolor and collage classes in Whitewater and Janesville and on occasion in other locations such as Milwaukee and Jefferson.  Color is everything!”

This exhibit of her work at the Whitewater Cultural Arts Center includes watercolor, collage and acrylic paintings, with varied subject matter from representational to abstract. The abstracts are from some of the series on which she has been working. The series represented in this exhibit include Rhythm, Mark Making and Texture.

WAA President Megan Matthews said, “Karolyn’s artwork is a wonderful, colorful mix of ideas and concepts that invite us to see the world in a new way.  I encourage everyone to stop by during the show, to see the incredible talent of one of our local artists.”

The Cultural Arts Center is located on 402 West Main Street in the historic White building near the Birge Fountain. Parking is behind the building. An elevator is available for access from the parking lot entrance. 

The mission of the Whitewater Arts Alliance is to promote the visual and performing arts through an alliance of artists, individuals, educational resources, and organizations to promote creativity and diversity that will serve to educate and enrich the lives of the residents of the Whitewater community and surrounding areas.

Photography-lovers are invited to learn and practice the fundamentals of photography at this free, four-hour, hands-on workshop sponsored by the Whitewater Arts Alliance. Join Jeff McDonald and Everett Long as they present, demonstrate, and mentor the class through hands-on practice exercises.  The workshop takes place on Saturday, May 4, 2019 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Whitewater Arts Alliance’s Cultural Arts Center at 402 West Main Street in Whitewater.  The workshop is free, open to the public, and all are welcome to attend. However, in order that the WAA may better plan the workshop, those planning to attend are asked to please RSVP to jeff.mcdonald@gaelicarts.com.

Topics covered will include: camera basics such as camera controls, getting sharp images, and changing lenses; digital photography basics such as getting proper exposure, automatic and manual exposure modes, auto-focus and manual focus, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, and white balance; and artistic considerations such as composition, light and shadow, depth of field, and capturing motion. Several stations with varying photographic subjects will be arranged for participants’ practice exercises.

Participants are asked to bring their camera with its user manual, charged battery, and memory card. The camera should have a manual exposure mode (where shutter speed, aperture, and ISO may be set manually) and use interchangeable lenses. Users of other types of cameras are welcome to participate but the workshop is designed for the cameras described. At least one tripod will be provided for the class to share but participants may want to bring their own tripod if they have one.

“Everett and I have conducted several Whitewater Arts Alliance photography programs over the last few years and we appreciate the positive response and feedback. The most-requested suggestion from attendees of those programs has been for us to include a hands-on component where participants bring their own cameras and get first-hand guidance on their use. The new four-hour format will allow us the time for this to be practical,” said Jeff McDonald

For award-winning photographer Everett Long, photography became an avocation and a passion after retiring from a 31-year career teaching history at UW-Whitewater.

Long said, “I’ve always had cameras, using them primarily to record family events and travels.  My principal subject matter since becoming serious about photography are what generally could be defined as nature photography, including landscapes, flowers (both representational and abstract), birds, water scenes, fall colors, as well as sunrises and sunsets, etc. A tripod is necessary for obtaining the close-up photos of flowers and other small objects in nature which I favor.  Adobe Lightroom permits me to organize, store, and edit the thousands of digital photos that I have taken over the years.”

Jeff McDonald’s photography has been recognized with awards at international photography exhibitions in the US, Australia, Canada, Europe, and Asia. His photographic interests include black and white, long exposure, landscape, architecture, street, and still-life photography.

“My objective as a fine art photographer is to produce remarkable images. Motion, unusual visual perspectives, and interesting light intrigue me, as do the found elements of a scene that challenge one to frame them into an interesting composition. In my view, fine art photography is far more about presenting the artist’s interpretation of reality than it is about presenting objective reality, as it would be for a photojournalist. To that end, I embrace the tools of the digital darkroom, the modern analogue of the chemical darkroom, applying them as little as possible but as much as necessary when they help me achieve my artistic vision,” said McDonald.

McDonald is a Whitewater Arts Alliance board member and has served as chair of its Fran Achen Photography Competition for the last four years.

Materials for participants to bring:
 – Camera with a manual mode, preferably one that uses interchangeable
lenses
 – Camera’s user manual, charged battery, memory card
 – Note-taking materials

(April 28) Over the past week, Washington Elementary School Student Council students led a schoolwide effort to collect new, adult-size socks for our nation’s servicemen and women through the organization Warmth for Warriors. With an original goal of collecting 100 pairs, our Eagle community buried us with socks! The final tally is 639 pairs of socks! Because of this overwhelming community support, we are pleased to announce that we will also be donating some of the collected socks to local veteran’s organizations. Thank you so much to our generous and compassionate Washington families as well as to others from the Whitewater community!  
Way to Go, Eagles! 

The Kettle Moraine Land Trust invites beginning and experienced birders to join in their annual Mother’s Day Bird Walk on Sunday, May 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Beulah Bog State Natural Area. The tour will be led by Jim Marrari, experienced birder; Derek Sallmann, Friends of the Mukwonago River; and Greg Rajsky, Executive Director, Kettle Moraine Land Trust.

Beulah Bog State Natural Area features upland woodlands and prairies with a trail down to an undisturbed bog featuring distinctive vegetation more typically found further north. The variety of habitats may harbor several species of birds to view and identify. Beulah Bog SNA is located north of East Troy, with parking .8 miles south of County Highway J on Stringers Bridge Road. Parking space is limited, so carpooling is encouraged.

Attendees are encouraged to bring boots for the walk in the bog (the boardwalk may be slightly under water) and binoculars and cameras. Please consider making reservations by emailing info@kmlandtrust.org or calling KMLT at 262-949-7211.